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SB    Efi    D3D 


OUTWITTINQ 
THE  "T.  B.  BUQS" 


A   LITTLE   MESSAGE   OF    HOPE,    HELP 

AND  COMMON  SENSE  FOR  THOSE 

WHO  SEEK  BETTER  HEALTH 


By 
MARY  MACK 


CAHILL  PUBLISHING  COMPANY 

860  PACIFIC  BLDG.,  SAN  FRANCISCO 

1920 


Outtwtting  the  "T.  B.  Bugs" 


A  little  message  of  hope,  help 

and  common  sense  for  those 

who  seek  better  health 


By 

MARY  MACK 


Published  by  the  Cahill  Publishing  Company 

860  Pacific  Bldg.,  San  Francisco 

1920 


Copyright  1920  by 

Cahill  Publishing  Company 

All  Rights  Reserved 


"Hope,  like  the  glimmering  taper's  light 
Adorns  and  cheers  the  way, 
And  still,  as  darker  grows  the  night, 
Emits  a  brighter  ray." 


822183 


Outwitting  the  "T.  B.  Bugs" 


...  By  ... 

MARY  MACK 


This  book  provides  a  convenient 
means  of  health  accounting  in  terms 
that  everybody  can  understand. 


Foreword 

THIS  is  a  Message  for  Everyman. 
That,  of  course,  includes  Everywoman. 

If  you  are  well,  this  will  help  you  to  stay  well. 

If  you  are  ill,  what  is  here  will  help  you  to  get  well 
again. 

Tuberculosis  being  the  result  of  a  run-down  condi- 
tion, which  permits  bacteria  to  gain  a  foothold  and 
thrive,  that  which  helps  arrest  tuberculosis  will  naturally 
help  any  one  to  build  up  his  or  her  general  health. 

The  primary  object  of  this  little  brochure  is  to  en- 
courage those  who  are  afflicted  with  tuberculosis,  and 
to  inspire  them  to  intelligent  effort  to  regain  health  and 
happiness. 

In  that  which  follows,  no  effort  has  been  made 
towards  showy  style  and  composition.  It  is  but  a  plain 

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OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

setting  forth  of  the  true  story  of  a  man  and  a  woman 
who  are  living  examples  today  of  what  a  conscientious 
effort  to  defeat  tuberculosis  will  accomplish. 

It  cost  the  man  and  the  woman  several  thousand 
dollars  to  learn  how  to  "beat  the  T.  B.'' 

They  believe  that  they  would  be  committing  an  un- 
pardonable crime  against  Humanity  at  Large  if  they 
should  fail  to  record  and  pass  on  their  experience  to 
others. 

Neither  is  in  the  medical  profession.  They  are  just 
every  day  individuals  with  ordinary  common  sense  and 
a  sufficiency  of  backbone.  In  these  pages  are  set  forth 
the  results  of  their  personal  experience  and  how  they 
conquered  what  ordinarily  strikes  such  terror  into  the 
human  heart  as  to  weaken  power  of  resistance  when  it 
should  be  strongest. 

The  story  of  their  lives  comes  first,  followed  by  a 
simple,  clear  explanation  of  the  cause,  treatment,  pre- 
vention and  remedy  of  tuberculosis.  For  ready  refer- 
ence there  is  an  index  to  the  subjects  covered. 

If  you  have  a  tendency  toward  pulmonary  disorders 
and  want  to  know  of  a  practical  method  of  overcoming 
your  troubles — or — 

If  you  already  have  tuberculosis  and  wish  to  profit 
by  practical  suggestions  which,  if  followed,  will  un- 
doubtedly help  you — or — 

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OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

If  you  would  merely  like  to  know  how  to  improve 
your  physical  condition  in  any  way,  or  even  just  how  to 
preserve  your  present  well-being — then — 

Digest  every  word  of  this  little  book,  remembering 
that  you  are  reading  the  unvarnished  truth. 

If  you  possess  that  negative  force  that  defeats  every 
good  intention,  it  is  useless  for  you  to  attempt  to  "beat 
the  T.  B." 

If  you  are  of  the  type  that,  when  told  of  certain  rules 
that  must  be  observed,  takes  particular  delight  in  break- 
ing them,  then  read  no  further. 

If,  on  the  other  hand,  you  are  a  sensible  person,  and 
feel  that  your  character  is  strong  enough  to  abstain  from 
certain  habits  and  lead  a  careful  life,  then  read  this 
narrative.  You  will  profit  by  it. 

It  is  difficult  to  understand  the  state  of  mind  of  a 
person  who  goes  to  a  sanitarium  with  every  intention 
of  obtaining  a  cure,  and  then  starts  right  in  to  break 
every  rule  of  the  institution,  knowing  that  those  rules 
were  made  to  help  him  in  the  fight  for  health. 

You  must  begin  by  fixing  in  your  mind  the  fact  that 
you  CANNOT  "beat  the  bugs"  and  dissipate.  You  can't 
beat  them  and  drink  whiskey;  any  more  than  you  can 
beat  them  and  lose  sleep. 

Now,  if  you  realize  that  those  cannot  be  helped  who 
will  not  help  themselves;  that  some  men  could  not  win 

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OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

a  race  with  a  centipede's  legs;  that  no  loafing,  lagging 
quitter  ever  made  good — then  there  is  a  chance  for  you. 
You  cannot  fail  if  you  reinforce  the  fight  for  health  with 
will,  ambition  and  determination,  following  to  the  letter 
every  instruction  given  herein. 

Study  this  little  book  carefully.  It  contains  a  gold 
mine  of  health  information.  Practice,  and  never  forget, 
the  simple  health  principles  outlined  in  it,  and,  barring 
accident,  you  may  live  to  a  ripe  old  age. 

Following  is  the  story  of  two  real  people  told  for  a 
real  purpose  and  written  by  a  friend  of  both.  For  obvi- 
ous reasons  the  names  used  are  fictitious. 


Page  Eight 


The  Real  Story 

Written  By  a  Friend 

A  DECADE  AGO,  an  eminent  New  York  Doctor 
xlL  conceded  Ted  Blair  three  months  more  of  life  on 
this  planet.  To  make  sure  of  his  having  that  many 
months,  the  doctor  bade  him  spend  them  in  Arizona. 

Ted,  once  a  handsome,  strapping  young  giant,  with  a 
baritone  voice  famous  in  more  than  one  New  York  ca- 
thedral and  fashionable  drawing-room,  was  then  tip- 
ping the  beam  around  125  pounds,  and  making  his 
wants  known  in  pale  whispers — for  with  his  health 
had  gone  his  splendid  voice. 

He  was  paying  a  fearful  price  for  having  burned  the 
candle  at  both  ends — for  that  was  the  cause  of  his  break- 
down. His  case  was  one  of  "T.  B.",  which  is  the  term 
the  man  in  the  street — and  many  a  doctor  today — 
applies  to  active  pulmonary  tuberculosis.  Nothing 
unique  about  it,  save  that,  whereas  "T.  B."  is  popularly 
supposed  to  be  a  disease  of  poverty  and  undernourish- 
ment, Ted  was  a  fine  example  of  what  can  happen  to  a 
sleek,  popular,  well-fed  young  man  with  a  world  of 
"pep"  and  "jazz"  and  super-vitality  when  he  tries  to 
squeeze  twenty-six  or  twenty-eight  hours  out  of  a  solar 
day  and  bucks  the  combination  of  business  and  social 

Page  Nine 


TED 
in  1910 
on  Leaving 
Phoenix 
for  Denver 


Picture  of 

TED 

Taken  in  1917 

Showing  how 

He  Looks  Today 


OUTWITTING    THE    "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

life  without  regard  to  the  limitations  of  the  human 
body  as  a  power  generator. 

Utterly  discouraged,  Ted  that  fall  went  back  to  his 
home  in  the  Middle  West.  A  social  favorite  because  of 
his  handsome  face,  stalwart  figure  and  engaging  per- 
sonality, and  a  musical  favorite  because  of  a  God-given 
voice,  he  was  suddenly  hurled  from  business  prosperity 
and  social  popularity  in  America's  greatest  city  to  the 
very  depths  of  hopeless  contemplation  of  a  consumptive's 
grave.  He  went  on  long,  solitary  rambles  in  the  snowy 
woods  around  his  home — the  home  he  had  quitted  for 
Broadway  a  few  years  before  in  a  glow  of  hope  and  am- 
bition and  perfect  health, — turning  over  in  his  mind 
ways  and  means  of  defeating  "the  Bugs." 

His  plan  of  action  called  for  a  change  of  scenery, 
light  and  sunshine.  With  his  natural  quick  decision  he 
said,  "Arizona  for  me",  packed  up  and  was  on  his  way. 
And  there,  in  the  dry  air  and  desert  sunshine,  the  deadly 
"T.  B/'  seemed  to  pause  in  its  march  through  his  tho- 
racic regions.  When  June  came  he  decided  that  Arizona 
sunshine  was  too  much  of  a  good  thing,  and  migrated  to 
Denver  where  he  entered  one  of  the  finest  sanitariums 
in  the  country.  A  place  where  the  doctors  and  nurses 
conscientiously  strive  for  results  and  in  the  great  per- 
centage of  cases  obtained  them.  A  sanitarium  such  as 
this,  which  reclaims  to  useful  life  so  many  "T.  B/s"  is 

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OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

about  the  greatest  philanthropy  in  the  world.  To  the 
philanthropist  who  endowed  this  wonderful  institution 
and  to  the  doctor  who  has  directed  its  destinies  for  so 
many  years,  thousands  today  turn  in  gratitude.  Blair 
is  one  of  the  grateful  ones  for  in  a  short  time  by  comply- 
ing with  the  rules  that  had  been  laid  down  for  him  to 
follow  he  began  to  obtain  good  results.  He  started  to 
expand  and  expanded  so  rapidly  that  he  had  to  have 
"V-inserts"  let  into  the  waistband  of  his  pantaloons. 
He  couldn't  believe  it  was  real,  despite  the  fact  that  he 
had  determined  that  that  was  what  was  going  to  happen. 
After  one  year  of  "chasing",  a  familiar  term  used  in 
"beating  the  bugs",  he  weighed  in  at  215.  That  was  the 
"peak  weight''.  Gradually  he  reached  equilibrium  at 
195,  and  today  his  "fighting  business  weight"  is  around 
190  pounds. 

About  the  same  time  Ted  had  received  his  walking 
papers  from  New  York  to  Arizona,  a  girl  from  Chicago 
— a  girl  he  never  had  heard  of,  though  they  were  born 
but  a  few  miles  apart — was  entering  on  her  second  year 
of  the  Battle  of  Phoenix. 

A  year  previously  Mary  Mack  weighing  ninety 
pounds  and  shaking  every  ounce  of  it  with  the  coughs 
that  spell  "goodbye"  to  so  many  people,  was  escorted  to 
the  train  in  Chicago  by  a  cohort  of  former  school 
friends.  As  she,  her  father  and  companion  stepped 

Page  Eleren 


MARY 

in  1907  before 

Going  to  Phoenix 


Picture  of 
MARY 

Taken  in  1917 
Showing  how 
She  Looks  Today 


OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

aboard,  the  girls  sang,  under  the  pathetic  guise  of  a 
cheerful  vacation  sendoff  but  with  their  hearts  aching 
at  the  fearful  reality  of  it,  the  then  popular  ditty,  "So 
Long,  Mary!"  They  never  thought  to  see  her  alive 
again;  for  Miss  Mack's  physician  had  conceded  her  six 
months  more  among  us  mortals. 

The  day  Blair  left  Phoenix  for  Denver,  the  follow- 
ing June,  it  happened  that  Miss  Mack  boarded  the  same 
train.  A  mutual  friend,  who  knew  both  stories  and  be- 
thought him  that  both  had  outlived  their  professional 
allottments  of  mundane  months,  introduced  them. 

Today  Mrs.  Blair  weighing  what  a  normal  young 
woman  of  her  height  and  build  should  weigh,  and  with  a 
ruddy  and  healthy  complexion  that  is  the  envy  of  many 
a  woman  friend  who  never  had  a  conscious  ailment, — 
not  to  mention  saucy,  snapping  Irish  blue  eyes  that 
dance  with  the  sheer  joy  of  living  whether  the  occasion 
demands  it  or  not — ably  manages  important  departments 
in  her  husband's  business,  drives  his  big  automobile  when 
she  feels  like  it,  does  her  own  housework  and  snaps  her 
fingers  at  the  Servant  Problem,  and  generally  constitutes 
another  living  proof  that  not  every  medical  prediction  is 
one  hundred  percent  accurate  and  that  the  supposedly 
sure-shot  tubercle  bacillus  can  be  whipped  'round  the 
stump  with  plain  common  sense. 

Mrs.  Blair, — Oh,  yes — that  part  started  almost  as 

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OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

soon  as  did  the  train  pulling  out  of  Phoenix  for  Denver. 
Miss  Mack's  Irish  blue  eyes  and  blue-black  tresses 
struck  deep  into  the  cardiac  regions  of  the  big,  gaunt 
chap  with  the  whisper  and  the  hollow  eyes. 

"Geef  he  thought.  "I've  got  to  get  well  now!" 
His  wife  tells  it  on  him  today  that  the  big  fellow  lost 
no  time.  He  couldn't  entertain  the  amazingly  pretty 
young  woman  with  the  deep  toned,  impressive  stories, 
for  he  still  worried  along  without  even  a  speaking  voice, 
much  less  a  singing  voice.  So  he  whispered  the  Big  Idea, 
which  was  that  he  was  beginning  to  think  that  after  all 
he  had  better  take  a  new  hitch  on  Things  in  General,  get 
back  to  the  old  status  of  "pep"  and  then — well,  let's  get 
to  the  point :  They  were  married. 

And  therein  lies  the  nub  of  the  whole  tale.  From 
San  Francisco  to  Phoenix  came  a  message  to  Blair  that 
he  was  needed  in  a  business  that  had  its  base  of  opera- 
tions in  San  Francisco.  He  first  decided  to  go  thither 
and  accept  the  offer,  and  then  informed  his  doctor  at 
Phoenix  that  he  had  so  decided. 

"Pure  suicide!"  exploded  the  M.  D.  "Sure  death! 
don't  think  of  it  for  a  minute.  Stay  right  here." 

But  the  old  Blair  will-power  was  in  the  saddle 
again.  He  weighed  two  hundred  pounds  and  could 
eat  nails.  He  went  to  the  city  of  nipping  sea  fogs  and 
brusque  sea  winds — declared  to  be  one  of  the  last 

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OUTWITTING    THE    "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

places  in  the  world  for  a  "T.  B."  to  hang  his  hat — 
and  resumed  the  activities  of  business.  Before  he 
left,  however,  it  was  decided  that  his  wife  would  join 
him  at  the  Golden  Gate  as  soon  as  he  should  become 
established  there. 

And,  as  has  been  suspected,  she  did. 

Before  long  he  launched  in  business  for  himself. 
No,  it  was  not  an  outdoor  occupation.  It  was  the 
business  of  advertising — a  sedentary  occupation,  tend- 
ing to  confine  men  to  office  atmosphere  and  keep  them 
humped  over  a  desk. 

Today,  as  president  of  the  Blair  Advertising  Com- 
pany, Ted  exhibits  to  close  scrutiny  about  as  little 
suggestion  that  he  ever  harbored  a  "T.  B."  bug  in 
his  system  as  does  a  prizefighter  in  the  pink  of  condi- 
tion about  to  step  into  the  squared  circle.  Only  when 
he  speaks  does  he  show  the  effect  of  the  battle.  A 
husky  speaking  voice  was  all  that  he  recovered.  The 
golden  baritone  never  returned.  But — 

"Never  mind  that,"  says  his  pretty  wife.  "You 
ought  to  have  heard  him  propose  in  a  whisper  on  that' 
train!" 

Asked  how  they  did  it,  either  will  tell  instantly: 
"Just  common  sense  and  rational  living,  plus  will 
power." 

Page  Fourteen 


OUTWITTING    THE    "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

Mrs.  Blair  herself  was  another  example  of  how 
the  deadly  "T.  B."  will  pounce  out  of  dormancy  and 
into  deadly  activity  in  the  system  of  a  well-to-do 
person,  living  amid  comforts  and  good  sanitary  sur- 
roundings and  financially  able  to  nourish  the  system 
with  the  best  the  market  affords.  Her  case  was  par- 
allel to  that  of  her  husband's. 

She  also  had  tried  to  extract  twenty-five  and 
twenty-six  hours  of  living  out  of  a  twenty-four  hour 
day.  A  brilliant  young  elocutionist  and  dramatic  stu- 
dent, on  her  graduation  she  had  taken  up  the  profession 
of  teaching  in  those  lines.  Years  afterward  her  dra- 
matic teacher  said  of  her:  "More  than  one  woman  I 
taught  at  the  same  time  has  since  become  world- 
lamous  on  the  stage — with  far  less  brilliancy  than  she." 

Popular  socially  and  much  sought  for  her  gifts, 
she,  too,  failed  to  recognize  the  limitations  of  the 
human  power  plant — until  the  load  she  imposed  upon 
it  "threw  the  circuit  breaker"  and  the  plant  had  to 
be  shut  down  for  repairs. 

Mary  had  had  several  hemorrhages  and  her  family 
physician,  who  knew  her  intimately,  considered  her 
power  machinery  only  good  for  the  junk  pile,  never- 
theless, something  'way  down  inside  of  her  told 
her  that  the  doctor  was  mistaken  and  that  the 
machinery  wouldn't  have  to  be  scrapped, — just  sent 

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OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

to  a  repair  shop.  She  knew  her  idea  was  right  when 
after  a  short  time  in  Phoenix  she  felt  benefits  from 
the  practice  of  what  she  had  never  known  how  to  do 
before — "rest." 

Another  discovery  epochal  in  her  life, — likewise 
made  while  "fighting  in  the  Phoenix  Sector" — was  that 
one  can  do  for  oneself  what  the  canniest,  most  skill- 
ful physician  in  the  world  cannot  do.  That  discovery, 
besides  instilling  in  her  the  very  spirit  of  self-reliance 
to  which  she  ascribes  her  remarkable  discovery,  has 
saved  her  and  her  family  thousands  of  dollars  in 
medical  fees. 

After  going  to  Arizona,  Mary  spent  just  six  weeks 
under  the  care  of  the  best  doctor  her  father  could  scare 
up.  She  watched  him  work.  He  was  a  good  doctor, 
too.  But  all  he  did  was  to  take  her  pulse  and  tempera- 
ture regularly.  She  decided  that  she  could  do  those 
things  herself  at  a  far  less  cost;  and  so  she  undertook 
the  job.  The  fact  that  her  recovery  was  really  more 
rapid  from  that  time  on  proved  to  her  that  for  a  nor- 
mal, thinking  person  to  take  personal  charge  of  his  or 
her  own  physical  health — providing,  of  course,  that 
there's  no  deep  organic  disorder  requiring  the  services 
of  a  trained  specialist,  or  any  broken  bones  to  reckon 
with — is  the  shortest  way  to  regain  lost  health. 

She  bought  a  good  clinical  thermometer,  took  her 

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OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

own  temperature  and  pulse  at  the  same  intervals  as  the 
doctor  had  taken  them,  and  kept  the  same  sort  of 
records.  And  she  made  the  same  sort  of  a  study  of 
these  records.  From  it  she  regulated  her  every  action. 
Also  she  made  a  study  of  dietetics  as  she  realized  that 
food  played  an  important  part. 

Many  doctors  hold  up  their  hands  in  holy  horror 
at  the  mere  thought  of  letting  a  patient  know  when  she 
is  running  a  temperature,  but  it  is  the  doctor  who  takes 
his  patient  into  his  confidence  in  the  matter  of  pulse 
and  temperature  who  gets  that  patient  to  work  with 
him  towards  the  desired  cure — who  gets  real  results, 
rather  than  the  doctor  who  maintains  a  good-natured 
air  of  mystery  such  as  a  father  maintains  towards  a 
sick  child.  More  and  more  physicians  are  coming 
around  to  see  the  matter  in  the  same  light.  This 
refers,  of  course  to  patients  sufficiently  well  educated 
and  well  poised  mentally,  and  in  the  proper  mental 
condition  to  co-operate  with  the  physician. 

Fear  kills  more  real  and  suspected  "T.  B."  cases 
than  do  the  bacilli  themselves.  Not  only  fear  in  the 
heart  of  the  one  stricken,  but  that  in  the  hearts,  minds 
and  faces  of  solicitous  relatives.  No  sick  person  ever 
recovers  who  gives  up  the  fight;  and  no  doctor  can 
effect  a  cure  if,  besides  the  disease  itself,  he  has  to 
fight  the  depression  caused  by  fear  in  the  heart  of  his 

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OUTWITTING    THE    "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

patient.  That's  why  the  most  successful  doctors  are 
those  with  such  personalities  and  dominance  of  will 
that  they  inspire  confidence  in  themselves  and  self- 
confidence  in  their  patients. 

When  you  get  a  combination  of  a  patient  with  the 
character  and  will-power  and  ability  to  think  and  act 
for  himself,  and  a  doctor  willing  to  share  the  honors 
of  a  cure  with  such  a  patient,  plus  real  faith  in  the 
great  goodness  of  God,  you  have  a  combination  pow- 
erful enough  to  pull  back  from  the  edge  of  the  grave 
the  worst  case  of  illness  that  ever  baffled  and  defeated 
a  doctor  who  relied  solely  on  his  own  science  and 
skill  and  who  for  traditional  reasons  kept  his  patient 
in  the  dark. 

Neither  member  of  this  now  widely-known  "anti- 
T.  B."  combination  has  any  patience  with  long-faced 
sob  sisters,  male  or  female,  who  flock  to  offer  mis- 
guided sympathy  when  their  friends  temporarily  lose 
out  in  the  eternal  battle  against  the  bacilli.  Cheer, 
cheer  and  more  cheer  is  their  doctrine  of  life. 

The  Blairs  are  firm  protagonists  of  the  theory  that 
tuberculosis  is  NOT  hereditary ;  that  it  is  communicable 
and  in  a  way  infectious  but  not  contagious;  and  that 
it  is  easily  avoided  and  prevented  and,  if  contracted, 
can  be  arrested  by  ordinary  common-sense  methods 
wherein  medicine  and  drugs  have  little  place. 

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OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

Ted  invariably  waxes  interested  when  doctors  are 
the  topic  of  conversation.  While  some  of  his  most 
intimate  personal  friends  are  of  the  medical  profession, 
he  has  many  a  good-natured  wrangle  with  them  over 
the  old  traditional  "pig-Latin," — from  the  days  of  the 
tribal  medicine  man  and  his  pot  of  stinking  herbs 
down  to  the  present. 

Times  have  changed,  and  they  keep  on  changing. 
The  race  may  devoutly  thank  its  collective  self  that 
the  day  is  really  here  when  doctors  are  devoting  them- 
selves more  to  the  preservation  of  health  and  to  the 
prevention  of  disease,  than  to  the  cure  of  disease 
already  contracted.  Physicians,  as  well  as  their 
patients,  see  a  great  new  light. 

But  don't  get  the  idea  that  either  of  the  Blairs 
considers  doctors  unnecessary.  Doctors  are  a  very 
real  necessity,  and  do  a  tremendous  good.  Their  ad- 
vice is  invaluable — when  they  consent  to  give  it  to 
us.  When  they  learn  to  take  their  patients  into  their 
confidence  and  let  them  share  in  the  work  they  do, 
they  will  double  their  efficiency  to  the  human  race. 

That  the  tuberculosis  rate  in  the  world  will  de- 
crease when  the  human  race  manages  somehow  to 
learn  the  science  of  resting  is  another  platform  in  the 
Blair's  health  plank.  The  popular  fallacy  that  sleep  lost 
one  night  for  social  or  other  reasons  can  "be  made  up" 

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OUTWITTING   THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

the  next  night  or  subsequently,  is  one  of  the  pet  Blair 
horrors.  They  say,  basing  the  dictum  on  painful 
personal  experience,  "It  can't  be  done!" 

"I  know.  I  tried  it  once,"  observes  Blair  with  a 
reminiscent  grin.  "Back  in  those  New  York  days, 
I  had  a  deal  of  night  work  to  do.  That  is,  I  thought 
I  had  to  do  it.  I  had  blown  in  fresh  from  a  small 
town,  with  a  voice  that  went  big  there  and  was  said 
to  be  the  real  lever  for  my  prying  loose  a  big  success  in 
the  Big  Town.  It  did  open  the  doors  for  me,  sure 
enough.  Then  the  glamor  of  it  all  went  to  my  head. 
I  was  studying  vocally,  and  studying  hard,  singing  in 
this  and  that  cathedral  and  church,  and  at  many  a 
social  gathering.  Next  night,  when  I  wasn't  on  some 
program  or  other,  I  would  get  busy  and  do  the  work 
I  had  shunted  aside  the  previous  evening.  I  slept 
when  I  could  find  the  time — and  when  a  chap  lives  in 
bachelor  apartments  he  is  apt  to  find  almightly  little 
time  for  that  which  he  needs  more  than  anything 
else  in  the  world,  not  excepting  food. 

"It  soon  'got  me.'  I  had  spent  my  early  years  in 
just  the  sort  of  work  that  ought  to  equip  a  man  for 
perfect  health,  for  my  father  was  a  contractor  and  I 
was  employed  in  that  business.  But,  along  in  1908 
somewhere,  I  felt  myself  slipping.  I  laughed  at  the 

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OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

idea  and  went  on  overdrawing  the  account,  burning 
the  candle  at  both  ends  and  in  the  middle.  Why 
should  I  admit  that  I  had  limitations?  A  great  big 
athletic  fellow  like  me? 

"Then  the  cord  snapped  all  of  a  sudden — and  you 
know  the  rest/' 

It  cost  the  Blairs  several  thousand  dollars  to  learn 
how  "to  beat  the  bugs/'  since  then  all  it  has  cost  them 
has  been  adherence  to  the  ordinary  common-sense  rules 
of  health,  plus  a  few  additional  rules  made  necessary 
because  they  both  overdrew  their  accounts  at  the  Bank 
of  Health  and  had  to  make  good  the  overdraft.  That 
is  one  reason  why  they  want  to  pass  on  their  ex- 
perience so  that  others  may  benefit  without  such 
expenditure. 

The  Blairs  are  interesting  examples  of  what  can 
be  done  to  fight  and  defeat  the  "T.  B."  bug;  but  they 
are  unique  in  another  accomplishment  also  and  that 
is  the  attainment  of  a  wonderful  happiness  in  their 
love  for  each  other,  something  rarely  to  be  found 
among  married  couples  of  today. 

If  these  "confessions  of  an  ex-T.  B."  help  any 
young  man  or  woman  who  may  be  trying  to  do  the 
same  sort  of  thing,  or  awaken  any  one  to  the  reali- 
zation of  the  truth  that  the  human  motor  will  burn 

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OUTWITTING    THE    "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

out  under  overloads  just  as  surely  and  certainly  as  will 
an  electric  motor,  the  Blairs  are  both  glad  to  have 
opened  the  pages  of  their  health  account  book  to 
public  inspection. 


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T 


"Every  rule  of  health  observed 
is  equivalent  to  a  deposit  in  the  Bank 
of  Health.  Every  neglect  of  the 
body  or  harmful  indulgence  is  a 
check  drawn  on  that  bank" 


"T.  B."  Curable-Heredity 

UBERCULOSIS  is  an  infectious  and  a  com- 
municable, but  not  a  contagious  disease.  It  may 
be: 

AVOIDED 

PREVENTED 

CURED 

Most  human  beings  have  a  natural  resistance  to 
tuberculosis,  and  with  ordinary  good  fortune  and  atten- 
tion to  our  food  and  surroundings  we  can  stave  off 
the  "white  plague"  until  old  age  or  some  other  cause 
brings  us  to  the  grave. 

Arresting  "T.  B."  (or,  as  many  call  it,  consumption 
or  decline)  is  simply  a  question  of  fresh  air,  good 
food,  sleeping  outdoors,  eating  heartily,  resting  abso- 
lutely, keeping  the  bowels  open,  avoiding  all  infection 
and  maintaining  a  cheerful,  confident  frame  of  mind. 

Contrary  to  popular  belief,  "T.  B."  is  not  neces- 

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OUTWITTING    THE    "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

sarily  inherited  (though  when  it  seems  to  run  in  a 
family,  there  is  apt  to  be  a  natural  tendency  that  will 
bear  watching).  The  shape  of  the  chest,  and  the  lung 
capacity,  should  be  developed  in  children  of  families 
with  such  a  tendency. 

When  adults  develop  active  tuberculosis  it  may  not 
be  a  new  infection,  but  only  the  development  into 
activity  of  germs  that  they  may  have  carried  in  their 
systems  since  childhood.  Any  man  or  woman  may 
carry  tuberculosis  germs  about  in  the  mouth,  throat 
or  nasal  passages;  but  unless  one's  blood  and  vitality 
be  run  down  there  is  not  much  danger  of  the  germs 
doing  any  harm. 

Up  to  a  short  time  ago,  one  out  of  every  eight 
persons  died  of  tuberculosis.  Seven  in  every  eight 
had  tuberculosis. 

People  like  the  Indians,  who  have  been  accustomed 
to  an  outdoor  life,  are  less  infected  under  those  natural 
conditions;  but  if  they  are  housed  up,  and  are  brought 
into  contact  with  these  microbes,  they  have  no  im- 
munity wherewith  to  fight  them  off  and  they  die  like 
flies 

It  was  not  until  long  after  mankind  began  to  cluster 
together  in  confined  and  congested  shelters,  such  as 
tenements  in  dusty  cities,  that  "T.  B."  became  a  human 
affliction.  This  is  why  a  big  part  of  the  cure  is  con- 
tinuous fresh  air. 

Pagre  Twenty-four 


OUTWITTING    THE    "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

Fear  Versus  Confidence 

THE  GREAT  factor  in  the  fight  against  tuber- 
culosis is  to  find  out  where  you  stand.  Don't  be 
afraid  to  learn  the  truth.  You  can't  fight  something 
you  do  not  know.  If  you  can  get  your  mind  in  a 
state  where  you  don't  fear  tuberculosis  you  can  combat 
it  successfully,  even  though  you  may  be  well  along  in 
the  second  stages. 

We  humans  haven't  yet  learned  how  properly  to 
fear  things  our  eyes  can't  clearly  see.  If  "T.  B.  bugs" 
were  as  large  as  elephants  we  would  see  them  in  their 
true  proportions;  but  because  they  are  individually  so 
insignificant,  we  don't  consider  their  numbers,  and  fail 
to  acquaint  ourselves  with  the  appalling  fact  that  many 
of  us  pay  as  much  to  feed  them  as  we  pay  to  feed 
our  stomachs. 

Mere  fear  kills  like  a  lightning  stroke,  by  par- 
alyzing the  nervous  system,  whereupon  the  bodily 
machinery  tears  itself  to  pieces  through  loss  of  central 
control.  It  is  too  much  to  suppose  that  the  imagina- 
tion ever  broke  or  set  a  bone;  but  it  has  either  saved 
or  lost  the  life  of  many  a  sick  person,  according  to  the 
way  in  which  it  happened  to  be  directed — either  by 
the  will  of  the  patient  himself,  or  by  the  guiding 
influence  of  a  doctor  or  a  nurse. 

The  successful  doctor  is  the  one  who  enters  the 
sickroom  with  his  face  full  of  cheer  and  masterful 

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OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

confidence,  and  not  with  his  expression  stern  and  mys- 
terious and  his  'pockets  full  of  pills. 

That  nurse  is  well  worth  her  pay  who  keeps  her 
patient  cheerful  and  confident.  It  is  not  sympathy 
that  heals.  Too  much  sympathy  sometimes  kills.  It 
is  confidence  that  does  the  good  work.  The  best  way 
to  combat  disease  is  to  meet  it  squarely  with  your  own 
will. 

While  there  is  a  point  in  tubercular  condition 
beyond  which  cure  is  impossible,  nevertheless  no  one 
but  God  alone  can  tell  when  a  patient  has  passed  that 
stage;  so  it  is  always  well  to  make  a  well-determined 
effort  of  the  will  itself  to  overcome  the  disease.  When 
patients  are  given  up  by  doctors  they  sometimes  re- 
cover; but  when  patients  give  themselves  up  they 
rarely  can  be  saved. 

Believe  with  all  your  might  in  your  powers  of 
resistance.'  Think  of  recovery,  not  of  death;  and 
do  your  utmost  to  persevere  in  the  habits  that  will 
help  you  win. 

Fear  of  "T.  B."  has  added  terribly  to  its  casualty 
list.  There  are  diseases  far  worse  than  "T.  B.,"  but 
the  human  race  hasn't  the  same  fear  of  them.  Elim- 
inate the  element  of  fear  and  your  battle  is  partly 
won  at  the  outset. 

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OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

Bad  Habits  to  Avoid 

YOUR  LIFE  is  worth  a  good  deal  to  you;  and 
you  will  find  that  if  you  live  regularly  you  will 
get  a  great  deal  more  out  of  it  than  by  dissipating 
and  abusing  your  body. 

There  is  a  difference  of  opinion  as  to  what  con- 
stitutes pleasure.  If  you  prefer  a  short  life  and  a 
merry  one  to  a  long  life  and  a  happy  one,  there  is  no 
use  in  your  trying  to  subdue  the  "T.  B."  germs.  You 
will  not  succeed.  If  you  think  that  waking  up  in  the 
morning  feeling  like  the  Wrath  of  God,  with  no  "jazz" 
nor  "pep,"  is  ideal,  there  is  little  use  of  your  attempting 
to  fight  the  germs.  But — if  your  mind  is  made  up 
that  you  will  never  be  a  member  of  that  dark  brown 
morning-after  club;  that  you  want  to  feel  when  you 
awaken  as  fresh  as  a  two-year-old,  with  a  sweet  taste 
in  your  mouth  and  ready  to  take  up  the  day's  work 
with  a  vim,  then  you  can  "beat  the  T.  B." 

Are  you  ready,  then,  to  step  out  and  fight  on  these 
terms  ? 

Then  fix  these  -"NEVERS"  in  your  mind  and  from 
now  henceforth  keep  them  in  full  force  and  effect : 


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OUTWITTING    THE    "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

Never 

— wet  the  thumb  or  finger  in  the  mouth  to  turn 
pages  or  count  money. 

— wet  the  tip  of  a  lead  pencil  in  the  mouth. 

— moisten  a  stamp  or  an  envelope  with  the  tongue. 

— touch  liquor  of  any  kind,  hard  or  medium  or 
soft.  (If  you  believe  that  drinking  liquor  is  in- 
dispensable to  you,  don't  try  to  fight  the  "T.  B." 
Some  may  think  otherwise.  It  is  an  established 
fact,  however,  that  you  can't  fight  the  "bugs" 
with  booze.) 

— spit  on  the  floor,  private  or  public.   Use  a  sputum 

cup. 

— swallow    sputum. 
— cough  or  sneeze  without  covering  the  mouth  and 

nose.    Try  to  control  your  coughing.    It  becomes 

a  habit. 

— permit  yourself  to  become  excited  in  any  man- 
ner. It  sends  up  temperature  and  is  dangerous 
in  hemorrhage  condition.  (Many  sanitariums 
find  it  advisable  to  separate  the  sexes  entirely.) 

— use  rugs  or  drapes  in  your  living  rooms.     They 

are  germ  catchers. 
— dry-sweep    a   patient's    room    or,    if   you   are   a 

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OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

patient,  permit  it.     It  is  a  prolific  way  to  spread 
germs. 

—sleep   with   another   person.      You   might   infect 
another    with    your    breath.      Sleeping    alone    is 
conducive  to  better  repose, 
—use  tobacco  in  any  form. 

—touch  the  face  with  the  hands  unless  absolutely 
necessary.     The  hands   invariably  carry  germs, 
and  the  face  is  the  direct  route  into  the  system. 
You  will  have  to  make  up  your  mind  at  the  out- 
set  that    "chasing   the    bugs"    is    considerable   of    an 
undertaking.     It  means  a  lot  of  sacrifice.     If  you  are 
big  enough  to  give  up  for  a  short  time  some  of  your 
wilful  habits,  and  adhere  to  the  "nevers"  and  "don'ts" 
outlined  in  this  little  book,  you  will  succeed  in  your 
efforts;  but  if  you  go  at  it  in  a  half-hearted  manner 
you  will  gain  nothing  and  get  nowhere. 

Make  up  your  mind,  then,  that  if  you  can't  go  into 
the  fight  hide,  hair  and  sole  you  will  be  wasting  time 
to  begin  at  all. 

Pessimism  Versus  Optimism-Hope 

YOU  WHO  set  out  to  combat  tuberculosis  should 
remember  that  it  took  you  years  to  reach  your 
present  condition,  and  that  you  cannot  expect  to  rid 
yourself  of  all  those  germs  and  become  well  and  strong 

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OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

within  a  few  months.  Just  make  up  your  mind  that 
if  you  have  patience  and  live  properly  you  will  slowly 
but  surely  rout  the  invaders  and  win  your  b?ttle  for 
health. 

To  patience  you  must  add  an  optimistic  outlook  on 
life  and  affairs  generally.  There  is  no  other  place 
in  the  world  where  a  smile  is  such  an  effective  weapon 
as  in  this  war  upon  "T.  B." 

Develop  your  imagination.  Start  in  by  figuring  the 
wealth  you  are  going  to  accumulate.  Build  air  castles. 
Think  of  all  the  philanthropic  good  you  can  do  with 
this  dream  wealth — the  sanitariums  and  hospitals  you 
are  going  to  endow,  the  wonderful  business  ventures 
you  will  undertake.  Think  of  everything  possible  to 
stimulate  an  optimistic  outlook  on  life. 

Calamity  has  no  pet  days  nor  favorite  dates.  Acci- 
dents are  bound  to  happen  in  the  best  regulated  cal- 
endars; but  nothing  is  hopeless  before  imagination 
and  faith. 

"Incurable"  is  a  temporary  word  in  every  disease. 
If  a  wire  pole  and  a  pot  of  acid  can  spit  speech  be- 
tween two  continents — if  a  woman  born  blind  can  be 
made  to  see  after  twenty-five  years  in  the  dark — if 
trains  can  be  driven  over  the  Rocky  Mountains  by  the 
power  of  waterfalls  along  the  way — if  a  ten-cent  store 
can  be  managed  well  enough  to  pay  for  a  fifty-five 

Page  Thirty 


OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

story  building — if  a  simple  skull  operation  can  reform 
a  criminal — then  it's  about  time  to  muzzle  pessimism 
(the  "can't-be-did"  stuff)  in  fighting  tuberculosis,  a 
disease  that  may  be  conquered. 

Worry  never  helped  any  cause.  A  man  fighting 
"T.  B."  must  not  worry,  or  all  effort  will  be  lost.  Life 
is  just  the  interval  between  one  breath  and  another, 
anyway — so  why  worry?  We  seldom  become  anything 
except  what  we  desire  to  become,  and  it  is  equally 
true  that  often  we  do  become  what  we  confidently 
expect  to  be. 

Our  minds  should  be  governed  by  faith,  not  fear. 

Fear  includes  pessimism,  dissatisfaction,  grief, 
anxiety,  despondency,  worry,  moroseness  and  vacil- 
lation. 

Faith  is  expressive  of  optimism,  satisfaction,  happi- 
ness, confidence,  assurance,  hopefulness,  cheerfulness, 
courage  and  determination. 

It  is  hard  to  be  patient  at  times,  in  this  fight  that 
takes  a  long  time;  but  impatience  with  circumstances 
will  not  improve  them.  The  law  of  compensation  is 
always  working,  and  we  must  earn  our  way  towards 
the  desired  goal.  We  must  believe  in  ourselves.  We 
cannot  make  a  mistake  in  giving  our  ego  the  benefit 
of  the  doubt,  and  giving  Providence  a  chance  to  help 

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OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

us.     Remember   that  we  are,   to  a  large  extent,   the 
arbiters  of  our  own  destinies. 

Optimism  at  its  best  is  wise  and  cautious;  so  prac- 
tice optimism  in  its  true  sense,  for  each  daybreak  is 
a  token  of  encouragement — a  promise  to  some — a  ful- 
fillment to  many — an  inspiration  to  all.  Discourage- 
ment means  defeat,  so  let  it  not  enter  your  thoughts. 

In  mind,  be  cheerful  and  hopeful. 

In  body,  be  a  "naturopath" — a  fresh  air  seeker. 


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Are  you  adding  daily  to  your 
health  balance?  Or  are  you  draw- 
ing constantly  upon  your  physical 
resources?  Are  you  living  on  the 
credit  or  debit  side  of  life? 


Causes  of  Tuberculosis 

SYMPTOMS 

IMPERFECT  breathing,  lack  of  fresh  air,  irregular 
and  insufficient  sleep,  lack  of  proper  exercise,  in- 
sanitary surroundings,  lack  of  nourishing  food  or 
improper  combination  of  food,  use  of  stimulants,  dis- 
sipation, overwork,  overstudy,  thoughts  of  fear, 
jealousy  and  hate  that  poison  the  blood — any  one  of 
these,  or  combinations  of  them,  plus  "bugs,"  may 
cause  tuberculosis. 

Parental  care  of  children,  as  to  tonsils  and  aden- 
oids, may  save  them,  in  later  years,  from  tuberculosis. 

Your  chances  for  recovery  depend  upon  an  early 
diagnosis.  The  later  in  its  course  the  disease  is  dis- 
covered, the  less  chance  there  is  for  recovery. 

Her.e  are  some  facts  about  tuberculosis,  and  the 
signs  of  its  approach,  which  if  heeded  may  save  your 
life: 

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OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

A  hemorrhage  from  the  lungs  usually  means  tuber- 
culosis; but  blood  coming  through  the  mouth  may  not 
come  from  the  lungs  at  all.  It  may  be  from 
mouth,  throat  or  head,  or  may  be  due  to  the  rupture 
of  a  blood  vessel  by  coughing.  The  blood  from  the 
lungs  is  pale  pink  and  frothy. 

A  subnormal  temperature  (by  clinical  thermometer) 
in  the  morning,  and  a  rise  in  temperature  in  the  after- 
noon, occurring  regularly  every  day  over  a  period  of 
several  months,  means  "T.  B."  ninety-nine  times  out 
of  a  hundred — and  the  hundredth  time,  too,  unless  that 
can  be  otherwise  accounted  for  by  a  physician. 

A  low  blood  pressure  (taken  with  a  proper  instru- 
ment) is  suggestive  of  tuberculosis. 

A  cough  that  lasts  over  two  months  would  suggest 
"T.  B.,"  and  should  call  for  an  examination  by  a  com- 
petent physician. 

Tubercular  bacilli  in  the  sputum  are  a  positive 
indication  of  "T.  B.";  but  the  diagnosis  should  have 
been  made  long  before  these  can  be  found. 

Night  sweats,  loss  of  appetite  and  marked  loss  of 
weight,  are  also  symptoms. 

Severe  diarrhoea,  running  for  a  long  time,  is  beyond 
symptoms.  It  usually  indicates  an  advanced  stage  of 
tuberculosis. 

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OUTWITTING    THE    "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

Loss  of  voice,  or  a  husky  voice  is  another  symptom. 

X-ray  or  radio  photographs  of  the  lungs  can  show 
the  presence  of  tuberculosis  two  years  before  actual 
symptoms  otherwise  appear. 

Teeth  and  Mouth 

THE    ALIMENTARY    canal   is   about   thirty-five 
feet  long.     Three  inches  of   it  are  just  behind 
your  teeth.     The  meat  of  this   "T.   B."  nut  is   right 
there  in  these  three  inches. 

At  the  same  time  your  system  is  throwing  off 
germs,  it  is  taking  in  other  germs.  If  you  take  in  as 
many  as  you  throw  off,  you  are  making  no  progress. 
To  establish  yourself  on  the  road  to  recovery,  there- 
fore, you  must  throw  off  more  germs  than  you  take  in. 

How  can  you  do  this? 

Make  it  a  point — yes,  make  it  part  of  your  daily 
religion — to  keep  your  mouth  and  nose  clean,  thus 
robbing  these  deadly  "bugs"  of  what  is  virtually  their 
main  entrance  into  your  system. 

If  otherwise  good  food  is  mixed  with  germs,  the 
value  of  the  food  is  lost  and  it  may  become  a  poison 
to  you.  That  is  why  plenty  of  time  should  be  taken 
to  cleanse  the  mouth  and  teeth  before,  as  well  as 

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after,  every  meal.     In  this  way  you  may  avoid  taking 
new  "bugs"   into  your   system  with  your   food 

If  you  eat  the  right  kind  of  food,  and  take  the 
proper  rest,  you  will  daily  throw  off  a  certain  num- 
ber of  germs  in  excess  of  the  number  you  take  in. 
Soon  you  will  have  more  than  enough  leucoytes  (white 
blood  corpuscles,  the  little  scavengers  of  the  blood) 
and  new  vigorous  red  corpuscles,  to  arrest  your  case. 
And — once  you  succeed  in  arresting  your  case,  then  a 
little  more  perseverance  will  make  you  well  again. 

Returning  to  the  mouth:  See  that  your  toothbrush 
is  "kept  clean."  Use  a  good  antiseptic  mouth  wash. 
Have  your  teeth  competently  examined  for  pyorrhea. 
If  you  have  pyorrhea  pockets,  don't  hesitate  to  have 
the  teeth  extracted — if  your  dentist  thinks  the  trouble 
cannot  be  cured  by  treatment.  The  poison  seeping 
constantly  into  the  system  from  pyorrhea  pus-pockets 
overtaxes  your  heart,  kidneys  and  liver. 

Never  kiss  anyone  on  the  mouth  if  you  can  resist; 
nor  allow  anyone  to  kiss  you  on  the  mouth.  Affection 
can  be  demonstrated  without  direct  contact  of  the  lips. 

Maintain  a  personal  drinking  cup,  and  never  use 
any  one  else's. 


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OUTWITTING    THE    "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

Qerms  and  Contamination 

SOME  people  object  to  the  idea,  the  mere  thought,  of 
germs,  microbes,  bacteria  and  the  like.  There  is, 
nevertheless,  an  insect  life;  an  invisible,  microscopic 
life,  inimical  to  mankind  and  thousands  of  times  more 
deadly  than  poisonous  reptiles  and  the  most  terrible 
war  machines. 

Filth,  ignorance  and  poverty  breed  and  encourage 
such  insect  life. 

Cleanliness,  enlightment  and  education  dissipate  and 
discourage  these  micro-organisms. 

The  hairy,  dirty  feet  of  flies  carry  disease  germs 
to  unprotected  food.  Unwashed  raw  fruits  and  vege- 
tables are  dangerous.  It  is  a  fact  that  microbes  exist 
although  they  are  invisible  to  the  naked  eye;  and  they 
cause  disease;  but — they  can  be  fought  and  downed. 

The  power  of  man  to  understand  and  combat 
disease  is  marvelous — when  he  stops  shivering  with 
fear  long  enough  to  use  his  brain.  There  are  people 
who  are  very  contemptuous  of  the  "germ  theory." 
They  are  somewhat  like  the  old-fashioned  doctor  whose 
daughter  was  found  by  the  school  inspector  to  be  in- 
fested with  the  carriers  of  typhus.  Her  reply  was : 

"Oh,  that's  nothing!  Papa  says  that's  a  sign  of 
health  in  children." 

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Apparently  sensible  people  have  been  heard  to  re- 
mark that  mosquito  bites  are  good  for  rheumatism — 
yet  they  were  at  the  time  shaking  with  malaria  due  to 
mosquito  bites! 

And  so  it  goes. 

Admitting  that  germs  do  exist,  and  do  cause  disease, 
there  is  no  need  for  fearing  them.  Healthy  people 
always  have  many  germs  in  their  mouths  and  nasal 
cavities— including  "T.  B.  bugs" — but  those  germs 
can  do  them  no  harm  while  they  keep  their  blood  and 
vitality  built  up.  The  germs  are  always  ready,  though, 
to  pounce  on  a  weak  spot  if  we  allow  ourselves  to 
"run  down." 

So  the  idea  is  to  aim  at  building  up  the  blood. 
Vitality  will  follow,  and  disease  will  be  overcome. 

Face  the  truth,  and  do  your  best  to  "fight  the 
bugs" — but  above  all  keep  your  sense  of  humor  and 
practice  patience. 

THE   HEALTH   SEXTET 
Food  Rest 

Sun  Air 

Water  Exercise 


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OUTWITTING  THE  "  T.  B.   BUGS" 

Night  Air— Fresh  Air— Draughts 

BREATHE  through  your  nose. 
Cold  fresh  air  will  never  kill  you. 
Germ-laden  air  and  bad  ventilation  may  kill  you. 

When  Cassius  is  sick,  it  is  not  daring  the  "vile  con- 
tagion of  the  night"  that  has  made  him  so;  for  night 
air  can  be  safe  and  pure,  despite  widespread  belief 
to  the  contrary. 

This  notion  that  night  air  does  harm,  arises  from 
the  fact  that  people  out  at  night  are  losing  necessary 
sleep,  and  probably  abusing  their  stomachs.  Then, 
the  next  day,  if  they  have  a  cold,  it  is  blamed  on  the 
night  air. 

Of  course,  the  body  must  have  proper  warmth  day 
or  night.  As  to  the  air  of  the  night  as  compared  to 
"day  air,"  it  has  been  proved  that  outdoor  air  is  much 
purer  in  a  given  location  at  night  then  it  is  during  the 
day.  At  night  the  atmosphere  is  cleansed  by  the 
precipitation  of  dew  and  frost;  for  moisture,  as  it 
falls  to  the  earth,  carries  with  it  from  the  air  the 
particles  of  dust  and  smoke  that  pollute  it. 

You  therefore  need  have  no  fear  of  sleeping  out 
in  the  open — or  at  least  having  your  windows  wide 
open  at  night.  Fresh  air  is  a  recognized  remedy  for 

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both  pneumonia  and  tuberculosis,  and  is  a  preventive 
of  disease  generally. 

Don't  be  afraid  of  draughts.  If  you  are  properly 
dressed  a  draught  will  not  hurt  you.  Avoid  ill-ven- 
tilated theatres  and  such  places  where  crowds  gather. 
Do  not  sit  in  a  room  with  another  person  unless  there 
is  a  window  open.  Work  in  daylight  if  possible. 
Above  all  things,  get  all  the  fresh  air  you  can,  both 
day  and  night. 

Temperature— Coughing  and  "Raising" 

HOT  HEADS  and  cold  feet  have  always  been 
silent  partners  in  every  bankruptcy. 

That  has  always  been  true  also  in  the  case  of  the 
fight  against  "T.  B." 

One  of  the  vital  factors  in  fighting  "T.  B."  is 
watching  the  temperature.  Buy  a  clinical  thermom- 
eter of  approved  make,  take  your  own  temperature,  and 
keep  a  record  of  it. 

Some  contend — and  many  doctors  contend — that  it 
is  better  for  a  patient  not  to  know  when  he  is  "run- 
ning temperature."  If  you  have  temperature,  however, 
you  will  be  aware  of  it  anyway;  and  if  you  gamely 
face  the  fact  and  persevere  in  the  proper  preventive 

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measures,  you  can  gradually  reduce  it — better,  we 
believe,  by  far,  than  if  kept  in  ignorance.  Ninety 
per  cent  of  business  is  in  the  failure  class  because 
it  doesn't  want  to  know  what  it  costs  to  do  business. 
Know  your  own  case  and  you  can  handle  it  and  your- 
self that  much  better. 

The  main  thing  in  treating  for  temperature  reduc- 
tion is  absolute  rest.  Lie  flat  on  your  back,  with  arms 
relaxed  at  your  sides.  Do  not  read  while  lying  down. 
If  running  temperature  do  not  read  at  all — even  sitting 
up. 

Bathing  the  feet  will  often  draw  the  heat  from 
the  head  and  aid  in  general  reduction. 

Take  your  temperature  before  breakfast  in  the 
morning.  You  will  usually  find  that  you  are  sub- 
normal, or  at  the  most  just  normal.  That  should 
prove  to  you  what  rest  will  do  towards  holding  down 
temperature. 

After  eating,  one's  temperature  usually  rises  a 
little,  but  this  is  not  alarming.  Take  your  temperature 
about  two  hours  after  each  meal.  You  will  find  that 
each  day,  if  you  persevere  in  your  efforts  for  health 
and  follow  the  hints  set  forth  here,  your  temperature 
will  be  a  little  less  than  at  the  same  hour  on  the  pre- 
vious day.  Of  course,  at  first  it  will  probably  take 
many  days  before  any  decrease  is  noticeable.  Occa- 

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sionally  when  your  hopes  are  high  that  you  have 
almost  reached  normal  your  temperature  may  begin 
to  soar  again.  Don't  let  this  discourage  or  alarm  you. 
Dig  right  in  and  "play  the  game  over." 

One  does  not  have  to  remain  in  bed  all  the  time. 
Stay  there  in  case  of  hemorrhage  or  when  running 
temperature.  Manage  to  get  ten  hours  of  sleep  or 
more,  regularly.  Sleep  outdoors,  no  matter  what  the 
climate — but  be  dressed  to  fit  your  climate.  (Refer 
to  the  chapter  on  "Sleeping"  for  suggestions  as  to 
dressing  for  outdoor  sleeping). 

A  patient  MUST  avoid  taking  exercise  too  soon 
after  the  temperature  has  been  reduced  for  the  first 
time  to  normal. 

Never  remain  up  after  nine  o'clock  at  night  until 
you  are  positive  you  are  entirely  well.  Never  go  on  the 
theory  that  if  you  lose  a  couple  of  hours  of  sleep  one 
night  you  can  "make  them  up"  by  sleeping  two  hours 
extra  the  next  night.  Sleep  lost  is  gone  forever  so 
far  as  restorative  power  is  concerned.  You  never 
can  regain  it. 

An  hour's  rest  before  and  after  each  meal  helps 

keep  down  the  temperature  and  aids  digestion. 

*     *     * 

Coughing  and  "raising"  are  another  important 
phase  of  the  fight  against  "T.  B."  If  you  are  "rais- 

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ing  much/'  as  they  say,  forego  all  violent  exercise. 
When  running  temperature  and  "raising,"  exercise 
is  strictly  taboo. 

Provide  yourself  with  several  sputum  cups,  which 
are  made  of  paper,  and  are  for  sale  by  all  druggists. 
Use  these  for  expectoration  and  then  burn  them. 
Expectorating  into  handkerchiefs  that  someone  else 
has  to  wash  will  spread  the  disease. 

Dishes  used  by  a  "T.  B."  patient  should  be  thor- 
oughly scalded  and  washed  and  kept  for  the  patient's 
use  alone.  The  patient  should  not  feel  resentment 
over  this,  as  it  helps  him  by  preventing  the  spread  of 
his  malady  and  by  keeping  his  own  condition  sanitary. 

Never  cough  nor  sneeze  without  covering  the  mouth 
and  nose  with  your  kerchief.  It  is  not  only  the  proper 
sanitary  preventive,  but  also  an  act  of  politeness  that 
all  should  practice. 

Drugs 

NATURE  is  forever  working  overtime  to  keep 
people  well.  Most  disease  (the  word  disease 
means  "lack  of  ease")  limits  itself  and  finally  tends 
toward  curing  itself.  However,  Nature  cannot  do  it 
all.  She  must  have  our  cooperation.  Thus,  many 
turn  to  drugs. 

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Drugs  are  a  necessity  in  emergencies,  but  should 
be  prescribed  by  a  doctor.  When  given  to  a  person 
suffering  from  malnutrition,  for  instance  (and  every 
"T.  B."  is  in  that  class)  they  only  compound  his 
troubles  instead  of  helping.  However,  heart  stimu- 
lants and  hemorrhage  hypodermic  injections  are  often 
imperative. 

While  drugs  do  sometime  palliate  suffering,  by 
stupefying  the  nerves  that  carry  pain  messages  to  the 
brain ;  they  cannot  cure,  as  they  have  no  power  to  build 
up  tissues  and  blood.  Beware  of  patent  medicines  and 
cure-alls.  No  medicine  can  reach  the  lungs.  That 
is  why  fresh  air  and  good  food  and  general  building 
up  are  the  best  remedies. 

Clothing 

USE  GOOD  judgment  in  choosing  your  clothes, 
as   they  play  a   large  part   in  your   battle   for 

health. 

Do  not  dress  too  warmly,  as  perspiration  in  winter 
causes  many  colds.  Try  to  keep  your  body  at  a  uni- 
form temperature.  Perspiration  in  summer  is  not  so 
dangerous. 

Absolute  cleanliness  is  a  prime  necessity.  In  the 
winter  time,  two  days  wear  for  hose  and  three  days 

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for  underwear   should  be  the  limit.     In  the  summer 
time  change  the  underwear  and  hosiery  every  day. 

There  should  be  no  pressure  anywhere  about  the 
body.  Women  should  not  wear  corsets.  Men  should 
not  wear  belts,  nor  stiff,  tight  collars,  nor  garters 
around  the  calves  of  the  legs.  Don't  lace  your  shoes 
too  tightly.  Wear  collars  a  size  or  two  too  large. 

In  wearing  collars,  care  should  be  exercised  to 
avoid  pressure  on  the  thyroid  gland.  This  applies  to 
both  men  and  women.  Enlargement  of  the  thyroid 
gland  is  known  as  goitre.  Pressure  of  any  sort  on  the 
neck  is  liable  to  injure  this  gland. 

Women  should  wear  white  or  light  colors.  Never 
wear  black.  Dark  colors  are  depressing.  Light  colors 
are  cheering.  A  cheerful  frame  of  mind  plays  a  large 
part  in  beating  "T.  B."  Blue  serge  is  the  nearest 
one  should  come  to  wearing  dark  colors. 

Men  will  find  it  more  than  a  mere  hobby  to  adopt 
the  wearing  of  white  wash  ties  all  the  year  around. 
They  are  swagger,  and  will  be  a  constant  reminder 
of  the  necessity  for  clean  underwear,  clean  outer 
shirts  and  collars,  clean  socks,  etc.  These  ties  are, 
moreover,  the  most  economical  a  man  can  wear. 


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Climate 

LET  IT  be  understood  that  it  is  possible  to  regain 
health  in  any  climate.  Where  ailing  persons  can 
live  outdoors  in  warmth  and  comfort,  however,  a 
quicker  and  more  pleasant  cure  is  possible. 

While  it  is  claimed  that  tubercular  people  who 
regain  health  in  frigid  climes  have  a  more  lasting  cure, 
yet  there  is  nothing  that  helps  along  a  cure  as  fast  as 
light  and  sunshine.  People  grow  dull  and  torpid  in  an 
unpleasant,  depressing  atmosphere.  Sunlight  is  golden 
with  health  dividends.  It  is  claimed  that  a  tubercle 
bacillus  lasts  just  seven  seconds  when  exposed  to  the 
direct  rays  of  the  Arizona  sunshine.  If  our  germs 
were  all  on  the  outside  of  our  bodies,  we  could  quickly 
kill  them  with  an  air  and  sunshine  bath.  Nevertheless, 
air  and  sunshine  aid  greatly  when  penetrating  from 
the  outside  inward. 

Warm,  dry  climates  have  one  drawback.  That  is 
dust.  When  caught  in  a  dust  storm,  as  will  happen 
in  an  arid  climate,  take  out  your  handkerchief  and 
breathe  through  it. 


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OUTWITTING  THE  "  T.  B.   BUGS" 

Water— Sun— Air  Baths 

UNDOUBTEDLY  there  is  great  virtue  in  the  sun, 
probably  the  result  of  its  radio-activity. 

Sit  or  lie  nude  near  a  window  through  which  the 
sunshine  enters,  or  right  out  in  the  sun  if  you  can 
arrange  to  do  so.  Cover  the  head  for  protection  from 
intensely  hot  sun.  Air  and  sun  directly  reaching  your 
skin  are  most  beneficial.  Everyone  should  walk  around 
the  bedroom  nude  occasionally.  Our  bodies  get  little 
enough  ventilation,  day  or  night,  always  being  clothed. 

Be  sure  to  wash  the  hands  very  carefully  before 
eating,  and  keep  your  fingers  out  of  your  mouth. 

A  thermal  bath  (of  hot  steam)  is  excellent  to 
relieve  congestion.  Free  expectoration  is  thus  stimu- 
lated. If  mucus  is  present  in  the  passages,  it  must 
be  raised;  so  do  not  fear  to  bring  it  up.  By  opening 
the  pores  of  the  skin,  as  they  will  be  opened  by  a  steam 
bath,  the  whole  sewerage  system  of  the  body  becomes 
more  active,  throws  off  impurities  and  relieves  the 
afflicted  parts  and  tissues. 

Keep  your  body  clean;  but,  if  you  are  in  a  greatly 
weakened  condition,  don't  bathe  too  often.  No  one, 
however,  should  go  a  week  without  a  warm  bath. 
Twice  a  week  is  better;  and,  if  you  are  able  to  stand 
it,  oftener.  Tt  will  help  your  circulation  to  take  a 

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OUTWITTING  THE  "  T.  B.   BUGS" 

bath  at  least  every  other  day.     Take  a  warm  bath  and 
gradually  allow  the  water  to  cool  off  while  in  it. 

If  inclined  to  hemorrhages  beware  of  cold  show- 
ers. Cold  baths  are  usually  too  much  of  a  shock  to 
one  in  a  weakened  condition.  Salt  baths  are  beneficial. 
After  any  sort  of  bath  a  person  should  lie  down  and 
rest  for  a  while  before  dressing. 

Keep  the  hair  properly  cleansed  and  shampooed. 

Never  use  another  person's  soap  or  towel. 

Olive  oil  rubs  are  excellent  for  "T.  B."  patients. 
Someone  else  besides  the  patient  should  do  the  mas- 
saging. Massage  half  the  body  one  day  and  the  other 
half  the  next  day  or  later;  as  olive  oil  is  rich,  and 
if  the  whole  body  were  covered  with  it  at  once  the 
patient  might  be  distressed,  as  it  affects  digestion. 
Olive  oil  is  the  only  oil  that  can  enter  the  pores  of  the 
body. 


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OUTWITTING    THE   "  T.    B.    BUGS" 

Water,  air  and  sunshine 
are  Nature's  greatest  tonics. 

Sleeping  and  Living  Surroundings 

SLEEP  and  live  entirely  outdoors  if  you  can. 
If  you  cannot  do  that,  keep  the  air  of  your  living 
and  sleeping  quarters  fresh  and  pure,  and  avoid  close, 
stuffy,  ill-ventilated  places — especially  those  where 
many  people  are  assembled.  Tuberculosis  is  a  disease 
of  improper  housing,  not  one  liable  to  be  contracted  in 
the  open  air. 

When  you  retire  at  night,  do  so  with  intent  to 
"sleep  through";  but,  if  you  should  be  wakeful,  have 
a  covered  pitcher  of  drinking  water  and  a  glass  on  a 
table  within  reach.  A  urinal  vessel  within  easy  reach 
is  also  a  comfort. 

If  you  live  in  a  cold  climate,  place  a  piece  of  build- 
ing paper  between  the  mattress  and  the  springs  of 
your  bed.  Nature  should  keep  you  warm  if  you  are 
dressed  properly.  Have  an  electric  heating  pad  at 
your  feet  if  you  suffer  from  cold  extremities;  or  take 
a  two,  three  or  five  gallon  jug,  fill  it  with  water  nearly 
boiling,  cork  it  tight  and  place  it  between  the  sheets 

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at  the  foot  of  the  bed.  It  will  not  only  keep  your  feet 
warm,  but  will  heat  the  entire  bed. 

It  is  an  absolute  necessity  to  be  warm  and  com- 
fortable. Wear  heavy  woolen  bed-socks,  heavy  woolen 
mittens,  and  a  woolen  cap  that  buttons  around  the 
throat  and  extends  over  the  shoulders.  A  4<Red 
Cross  helmet"  of  knitted  yarn,  such  as  our  soldiers 
used  in  France,  is  an  excellent  night  head  covering. 

If  sleeping  outdoors  where  it  is  below  zero,  it  is 
advisable  to  supplement  the  suggested  head  covering 
with  a  nose  piece  of  wrool  that  has  an  opening  at  the 
nostrils,  thus  leaving  only  your  eyes,  nostrils  and  mouth 
exposed  to  the  low  temperature. 

Never  cover  your  face  with  your  bedclothes.  You 
must  be  able  to  breathe  plenty  of  pure  air. 

Have  your  bedding  of  bright  colors;  and  scrupu- 
lously clean.  White  semi-sheets  are  advisable  to  cover 
the  ends  of  the  blankets  near  the  head,  for  obvious 
sanitary  reasons.  One  is  constantly  breathing  on  the 
upper  ends  of  the  bea  clothing,  and  these  sheets  can 
be  washed  often.  Use  a  light  blue  or  white  washable 
spread.  Change  the  sheets  and  pillow  cases  at  least 
tzvice  a  week,  and  every  day  if  you  can  afford  it. 

Bright  cheery  surroundings  in  living  rooms  and 
bedrooms  play  a  most  important  part  in  the  "T.  B." 
chase.  The  walls  of  a  bedroom  should  be  tinted  in 

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pale  colors.  Good  paint  is  easy  to  wash  and  white 
woodwork  helps  wonderfully  in  cheering  a  patient. 
Eliminate  all  dark  and  sombre  hues  in  your  rooms. 
For  washing  furniture,  metal  surfaces  and  floors  in 
the  room  of  a  tubercular  patient,  use  good  strong 
soap  (soft  soap).  For  washing  hands  and  face  use 
tincture  of  green  soap. 

The  Blood 

THE  BLOOD  is  the  life  stream  of  your  existence. 
It  consists  of  a  fluid  called  the  lymph,  in  which 
float  the  red  corpuscles  that  give  it  its  color,  and  the 
fighting  leucocytes  or  white  corpuscles  that  are  the 
scavenger  policemen  of  the  blood  system.  Lower  the 
quality  and  supply  of  the  blood,  and  you  ruin  the 
human  machine. 

While  it  is  true  that  the  circulatory  system  is  the 
channel  of  life,  it  is  also  true  that  it  can  become  a  chan- 
nel of  death.  The  circulatory  system  is  like  a  sewer- 
age system  in  that  if  it  becomes  overloaded  with 
poisons,  you  become  ill.  But  it  is  just  as  dangerous, 
if  not  more  so.  for  the  blood  to  become  too  thin. 

Life  is  a  continuous  process  of  building  up  and 
tearing  down.  Just  as  the  blood,  through  the  arteries, 
carries  to  the  various  parts  of  the  body  the  food 

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needed  to  build  up  the  cells,  so  it  also,  through  the 
veins,  carries  away  from  all  parts  of  the  body  the 
waste  material  that  has  been  torn  down.  The  stress 
and  rush  are  tremendous.  Not  a  fraction  of  a  second's 
delay  is  ever  permitted,  for  the  waste  materials  are 
poisonous  and  must  be  taken  away  immediately,  while 
the  nourishment  to  take  their  place  must  be  supplied. 

The  battle  against  "T.  B."  is  a  battle  of  building  up 
the  blood  so  that  the  blood  can  perform  better  its 
purifying  functions  and  thus  "kill  the  bugs/' 

Some  tuberculosis  patients  have  hemorrhages. 
Others  have  not.  Hemorrhages  often  occur  in  the 
early  stages.  A  loss  of  much  blood,  from  a  severe 
hemorrhage  is  hard  to  make  up;  but  perseverance  will 
accomplish  it.  Beef  juice  or  beef  broth  are  an  aid 
in  such  a  case.  If  hemorrhage  occurs,  it  is  well  to 
call  in  a  doctor  or  a  nurse;  for  a  hypodermic  injection 
proves  an  immediate  aid.  In  slight  "spitting  of  blood," 
eating  salt  or  cracked  ice  and  keeping  the  body  (and 
mind)  perfectly  quiet,  usually  helps  to  stop  it.  Ice 
about  the  throat  also  helps. 

Often  a  slight  loss  of  blood  is  due  merely  to  the 
bursting  of  a  small  blood  vessel  from  coughing.  Many 
times  blood  coming  from  the  mouth  is  in  reality 
from  the  head  or  nasl  passages,  as  a  nose  bleed, 
and  not  from  the  lungs  at  all.  Ordinary  nose 

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bleed  may  be  stopped  by  pressure  on  the  hollow  place 
under  the  eyebrows,  or  on  the  upper  lip. 

In  cases  of  hemorrhages  or  apparent  hemorrhages, 
first  of  all  the  patient  must  not  become  "panicky." 
Absolute  calmness  may  be  the  means  of  saving  a  life. 
There  is  nothing  to  be  done,  to  avoid  recurrence,  but 
to  maintain  absolute  rest  and  take  thorough  nourish- 
ment. Rest  is  paramount.  To  use  a  paradox,  one  must 
not  get  tired  of  resting. 


Rest! 

Rest!! 

Rest!!! 

Rest!!!! 

Don't   wait   'till   you   are   weary. 


Rest  and  Exercise 

BEFORE  and  after  eating,  recline. 
When  you  rest,  rest  in  every  sense  of  the  word. 
•  Eliminate     all     restless     and     unnecessary     move- 
ments of  the  body.     Apply  the  same  process  to  your 
mind.      Try   to    "make   your   mind   a   blank."      Don't 
think.     Shut  off  your  brain. 

Never    recline   with   your    arms    over    your    head. 

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Let  your  arms  lie  at  your  sides.     Just  relax — entirely 
and  absolutely. 

Cultivate  physical  poise  and  muscular  relaxation 
at  all  times.  Avoid  mental  stress  and  anxiety.  Cul- 
tivate serenity  of  mind.  Don't  worry.  Worry  is  a 
destroyer  of  tissue. 

A  couch  in  a  business  office  is  a  wonderful  preserva- 
tive of  nervous  force,  even  if  one  reclines  but  fifteen 
minutes  in  the  afternoon — preferably  after  lunch. 
Never  exercise  when  running  temperature. 
A  "T.  B."  should  always  be  wary  of  arm  exercise. 
The  infected  lungs  are  like  a  sore  on  a  finger  joint. 
If  you  keep  exercising  the  finger  you  keep  the  sore 
open  and   agitated  all   the  time.     Arm   exercise   thus 
disturbs   the   affected  lung  tissues.      Rest  helps   them 
to  heal. 

Take  moderate  exercise  when  free  from  tempera- 
ture. Leg  exercise  helps  the  bowels  and  will  not  hurt 
the  lungs.  Lie  down,  draw  the  legs  up  to  the  chin, 
and  then  straighten  them  out.  Massaging  the  abdomen 
will  stimulate  bowels ;  but  you  had  better  have  someone 
else  do  the  massaging.  Raise  the  body  at  the  buttocks 
and  lower  it  gently.  The  "muscle  dance"  movement 
is  a  good  aid  in  stimulating  peristalsis  of  the  bowels. 

When  one  is  entirely  free  of  temperature,  and  has 
been  so  for  a  few  months,  walking  is  beneficial.  Begin 

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with  a  very  short  walk — a  few  yards  only.  Then 
increase  gradually,  say  a  block;  and  more  daily. 
Strength  will  gradually  be  regained. 

When  one  has  not  shown  temperature  for,  say,  a 
year,  and  is  virtually  well,  normal  living  may  be 
resumed  and  normal  exercise  taken.  But  one  who  has 
ever  had  active  "T.  B."  must  always  thereafter  live 
with  care.  That  does  not  mean  continually  thinking 
of  what  should  and  should  not  be  done.  It  means  only 
to  observe  the  natural  laws  of  health — which  everyone 
should  do  at  all  times. 

Exercise  is  essential  to  the  wellbeing  of  a  per- 
fectly well  person.  When  one  is  well,  a  flexing  and 
tension  exercise  night  and  morning  for  hands  and  arms 
— say  six  times  for  each  exercise — is  beneficial;  as 
also  is  a  bending  of  the  body  at  the  waist  line.  Try 
to  touch  the  floor  with  the  hands  without  bending  the 
knees.  Kick  the  legs  out  from  the  hips,  in  regular 
cadence.  Swing  the  head  around  in  a  circle,  and 
swing  the  trunk,  bent  at  the  waist,  in  a  semi-circle 
or  almost  a  full  circle  from  the  waist  as  a  pivot. 

The  United  States  Army  "setting  up"  exercises 
are  excellent  if  used  judiciously.  The  Army's  "Manual 
of  Physical  Drill"  can  be  obtained  by  anyone  at  a 
bookstore  handling  army  publications,  and  is  worth 
the  purchase  price. 

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Breathing 


NO  BREATHING  exercise  is  of  much  if  any 
benefit  unless  taken  in  the  open  air.  Get  out  in 
the  open  and  practice  (in  the  light  of  what  has  just 
been  read  here)  the  army  breathing  exercises  as  de- 
scribed in  the  Manual  referred  to. 

Every  physical  drill  exercise,  or  "setting  up"  exer- 
cise, should  be  followed  by  one  of  the  simple  breathing 
exercises — always  taken  slowly,  calmly  and  with  the 
body  and  mind  in  perfect  poise. 

Forced  breathing  usually  makes  one  dizzy.  "Pack- 
ing" the  lungs  is  not  a  sensible  breathing  exercise  for 
one  with  pulmonary  trouble.  It  is  the  quiet,  steady, 
deep  breathing  exercise  that  does  the  work. 

One  should  strive  to  make  deep  breathing  second 
nature.  The  average  person,  particularly  one  who 
works  at  a  desk  or  in  an  office,  breathes  as  a  rule  with 
but  a  fraction  of  the  lungs.  The  cells  at  the  bottoms  of 
the  lobes  seldom,  save  under  the  stress  of  physical 
exercise,  get  their  share  of  pure  air.  Deep  breathing 
will  counteract  this  condition.  By  practicing  it  con- 
sciously for  some  time,  deep  breathing  can  be  made 
a  subconscious  process — a  habit. 

To  reiterate  something  that  has  already  been  said: 
Always  breathe  through  the  nose.  The  mouth  is  an 

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open  cavern  of  easy  access  to  whatever  impurities  the 
air  contains.  The  nose  contains  the  proper  safe- 
guards, and  moistening  apparatus  to  humidify  the 
ingoing  air. 

When  a  patient  is  well  recovered  he  should  try, 
while  walking,  taking  in  the  breath  for  six  steps; 
holding  it  for  the  next  six  steps,  and  exhaling  slowly 
for  the  next  six  steps.  Do  this  ten  or  fifteen  times  a 
day.  Increase  the  intervals  to  seven  or  eight  steps,  or 
more  if  you  can  without  discomfort. 


Moderation 

JUST  AS  it  is  necessary  to  use  discretion  in  matters 
of   diet   and   cleanliness,    always,    so   it   is    equally 
important  to  use  common  sense,  care  and  good  judg-. 
ment  in  all  things. 

Be  moderate  in  the  use  of  all  save  three  things: 
Fresh  air,  sunshine  and  drinking  water.  Be  prodigal 
in  the  use  of  these  three. 

Be  calm,  find  and  do  work  that  you  like,  and  strive 
for  real  love. 


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Constipation 


NEVER  allow  yourself  to  become  constipated. 
Auto-toxemia  sets  in  (that  is,  self -poisoning) 
and  does  almost  as  much  harm  as  tuberculosis  itself. 

If  you  have  to  spend  a  great  deal  of  time  in  bed, 
resort  to  enemas.  An  olive  oil  enema  is  excellent. 

Watch  yourself  carefully  in  this  direction.  It  is 
of  prime  importance.  It  is  better  to  regulate  the 
functioning  of  the  bowels  by  proper  choice  of  food. 
Buttermilk  is  beneficial  in  most  cases. 

The  very  nourishing  nature  of  the  diet  necessary  to 
build  up  the  blood  and  general  system  quickly,  and 
the  small  amount  of  exercise  that  a  "T.  B."  can  take, 
naturally  lead  to  biliousness;  but  biliousness  in  this 
case  is  the  lesser  of  two  evils,  and  your  eating  (or 
really  over-eating)  must  be  kept  up  until  your  blood 
begins  to  show  the  benefit  in  added  strength.  Then 
normal  diet  may  be  resorted  to.  One  may,  and  should, 
prevent  this  bilious  condition  so  far  as  possible,  or 
remedy  it  at  the  outset,  by  eating  laxative  food  and,  if 
absolutely  necessary,  taking  a  suitable  physic. 

Remember  what  the  Creator  gave  you  your  teeth 
for,  and  use  them.  Food  that  is  properly  masticated 
tends  far  less  to  constipation  than  food  that  is  piled 
into  the  stomach  and  bowels  as  one  lays  in  a  winter's 

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coal  supply.  Therefore,  chew  your  food  long  and 
well  before  you  send  it  downstairs.  The  process  of 
digestion,  remember,  begins  in  the  mouth. 

When  the  patient  is  well  along  toward  recovery  he 
should  begin  to  eat  the  proper  foods  and  take  such 
exercises  as  will  obviate  the  need  of  laxatives. 

From  two  to  four  glasses  of  pure  water,  taken  half 
an  hour  before  breakfast,  act  as  a  mild  laxative; 
but  it  is  a  perfectly  normal  means  of  forcing  the 
bowels.  A  glass  of  orange  juice  taken  half  an  hour 
before  breakfast  is  also  beneficial  to  the  bowels,  and 
has  a  cleansing  action  on  the  blood. 


Food 

NECESSITY  forces  us  to  do  many  things  that  we 
otherwise  wouldn't  bother  about.  One  rarely 
gives  his  stomach  a  thought  until  something  goes  wrong 
with  it.  If  he  suffers  enough  from  his  stomach  or 
bowels,  he  will  consult  a  physician;  nevertheless  every 
individual  has  to  make  a  personal  study  of  himself 
and,  after  deciding  what  agrees  with  him  and  what 
does  not,  must  choose  from  among  the  foods  agreeable 
to  him  the  ones  containing  the  elements  for  building 
up  blood,  tissues  and  energy. 

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In  these  days  when  army  diet  is  still  fresh  in  the 
public  mind,  the  term  "balanced  ration"  is  familiar. 
It  means  a  ration,  or  a  food  allowance  per  diem,  that 
contains  all  the  elements  necessary  to  body  building 
and  maintaining.  It  is  the  "fighting  ration"  of  the 
American  soldier — the  best  physically  among  the  sol- 
diers of  the  world.  It  is  a  suitable  "balanced  ration" 
that  the  patient  must  work  out  for  himself  with  such 
aid  and  directions  as  he  can  obtain  from  his  physician. 
It  is  the  purpose  of  this  book  to  give  certain  hints  as 
to  diet  that  will  aid  the  "T.  B."  in  this  direction. 

How  to  select,  combine  and  proportion  food  so  as 
to  build  up  your  blood  and  assist  nature  in  the  cura- 
tive process  is  a  deep  study. 

First  of  all  it  should  be  remembered  that  neither 
the  stomach  nor  the  intestines  have  teeth.  Refer 
back  to  the  preceding  section  on  "Constipation"  in  this 
connection.  The  advice  will  bear  repetition  here: 
Food  must  be  well  chewed  before  it  is  swallowed.  It 
is  only  the  well-chewed  food  that  is  properly  digested 
— for,  as  has  just  been  said,  digestion  commences  in 
the  mouth.  Well -chewed  food  yields  strength  and 
vigor  without  discomrort. 

The  "T.  B."  must  remember  at  all  times  that  the 
main  thing  for  him  is  the  rebuilding  of  wasted  tissues 
as  rapidly  as  possible.  To  this  end  he  must  eat  lib- 
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erally  of  the  most  nourishing  foods,  selected  as  indi- 
cated in  the  earlier  part  of  this  chapter.  Then,  if 
that  brings  on  biliousness  or  constipation,  he  must 
resort  to  enemas  or  other  suitable  measures  such  as 
have  been  discussed  under  the  subject  of  constipation. 

The  diet  system  about  to  be  discussed  here,  for 
"T.  B."  patients,  is  not  to  be  considered  as  suitable 
for  normal  conditions.  Under  such  conditions,  such 
a  diet  would  be  akin  to  over-stoking  a  furnace. 

For  anyone  wishing  to  rebuild  tissues,  blood  and 
strength,  excepting  where  organic  complications  would 
indicate  restricted  diet  (as  in  liver  and  kidney  diseases) 
the  following  plan  will  yield  results: 

Drink  plenty  of  water  between  meals — say  an  hour 
and  a  half  after  eating.  Do  not  use  ice  water.  Always 
use  individual,  perfectly  clean  drinking  vessels. 

Besides  adhering  to  the  rule  of  chewing  well  what 
you  eat  (and  too  much  stress  cannot  be  laid  on  this 
factor)  establish  and  stick  to  a  rule  of  not  eating 
between  meals.  The  stomach  must  have  rest,  just 
as  must  the  brain  and  the  entire  body. 

If  inclined  to  constipation,  drink,  as  suggested 
under  that  head,  a  glass  of  orange  juice — at  least 
half  an  hour  before  breakfast.  Drink  two  or  three 
glasses  of  water  later — hot  or  cool,  as  preferred. 

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Avoid  pork  and  veal,  but  eat  red  meats  and  plenty 
of  vegetables  and  fruits. 

Milk  is  a  food  of  recognized  value,  and  you  need 
it;  but  you  should  strive  to  drink  it  with  your  meals 
if  you  can.  Tubercular  patients  need  lime,  and  milk 
contains  it.  So  do  eggs  and  carrots.  Bread  contains 
some  lime. 

Menu  for  "T.  B." 

There  are  appended  below  some  suggestions  as  to 
a  selection  of  foods  for  the  three  meals  of  the  day. 

BREAKFAST — If  orange  juice  is  not  available,  eat 
stewed  fruit  (prunes,  rhubarb,  etc.)  or  baked  apples. 
Follow  with  oatmeal  (well  cooked  with  bran),  with 
a  piece  of  butter  melted  in  it  and  plenty  of  cream  (and 
sugar  also  if  the  taste  requires).  Grape-Nuts  is 
beneficial.  Bacon  is  desirable,  though  a  little  hard 
to  digest.  After  eating  plenty  of  the  foregoing,  take 
two  raw  eggs  (with  a  little  lemon  juice  or  a  pinch  of 
salt  if  desired)  and  a  glass  of  milk  if  you  can  without 
discomfort. 

LUNCHEON. — Beef  broth  properly  made  for  a 
starter,  followed  with  cold  roast  beef  or  a  broiled 
lamb  chop.  (Use  no  fried  foods  whatever).  Boiled 
rice  or  macaroni  and  cheese  is  a  good  item,  plus  a 
warm  vegetable  or  else  a  salad  with  olive  oil  dressing. 

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Finish  with  an  apple,  two  more  raw  eggs  and  salted 
nuts  (either  peanuts  or  almonds).  For  a  beverage 
use  chocolate  or  milk. 

To  make  Beef  Broth.  Cut  beef  in  cubes  3-4  inch 
square;  place  in  Mason  jar,  screw  lid  on  tight;  place 
in  large  kettle  in  warm  water,  not  hot,  and  let  stand 
for  two  hours;  run  through  press  or  lemon  squeezer  to 
obtain  juice.  Then  serve  to  patient  with  a  little  salt 
if  one  must  have  it. 

DINNER. — Commence  with  a  rich  cream  soup. 
Then  broiled  beefsteak,  roast  beef  or  roast  lamb.  For 
vegetables  use  spinach,  carrots,  peas,  etc.,  boiled  and 
creamed  if  you  like.  Potatoes  are  best  baked;  but 
variety  is  needed  to  "keep  up  interest"  in  this  valuable 
tuber.  For  dessert  serve  custard,  tapioca  or  any 
similar  dish  that  you  may  enjoy — always  trying  to 
stick  to  those  in  which  eggs,  milk  and  cream  are 
embodied.  Finish,  again,  with  two  raw  eggs,  a  glass 
of  milk  and  salted  nuts.  Besides  the  nourishment  the 
reason  for  eating  the  salted  nuts  is  that  they  create 
thirst  and  thus  induce  drinking  plenty  of  water. 

There  is  given  below  a  selection  of  desserts  that 
will  aid  you  in  gaining  weight: 

Cakes  or  cookies.  Custards.  Ice  cream. 

Rice  or  tapioca.  Soufflle.  Whipped  cream. 

Sago-figs-dates.  Gelatin.  Rich  pie  crust. 

Raisins,  candy.  Junket.  Nuts. 

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Rest  before  and  after  every  meal.  Talk  of  pleas- 
ant subjects  at  table.  Have  your  table  service  as 
attractive  and  clean  as  possible. 

Food  Values  and  Combinations 

For  those  not  ill  but  desiring  to  live  long  and  in 
good  health,  good  food  in  proper  combination  is 
essential. 

The  majority  of  us  eat  too  much.  It  is  not  under 
normal  conditions,  how  much  we  eat,  but  how  well 
we  digest  what  we  eat,  that  affects  the  balance. 

There  is  no  need  of  "shutting  down  the  plant  for 
repairs"  if  we  eat  properly.  It  has  been  truly  said 
that  "we  dig  our  graves  with  our  teeth"  very  often. 

In  what  follows  is  embodied  information  along 
these  lines  that  will  prove  valuable  both  to  the  "T.  B." 
patient  seeking  to  regain  health  and  to  the  person 
who  is  well  and  strong  and  wants  to  remain  so  or 
grow  still  stronger. 

(  Proteins 

Tissue-Formers  or  Body-Builders      <  Mineral  Matter 

t  Water 

Energy  or  Work  and  Heat  \  Carbohydrates 

Producers  )  £at 

1  Proteins 

Regulators  of  Body  Processes  J  Mineral  Matter 

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Important  sources  of  Proteins — Milk,  eggs,  meat, 
fish,  cheese,  beans,  peas,  lentils,  some  nuts,  some  cereals. 

IMPORTANT  SOURCES  OF  FATS— Olive  oil, 
butter,  cream,  bacon  and  other  fat  meats  and  nuts. 

IMPORTANT  SOURCES  OF  CARBOHY- 
DRATES— Cereals  and  cereal  products,  sago,  tapioca, 
starchy  vegetables  such  as  potatoes,  sugar,  honey,  sweet 
dried  fruits. 

IMPORTANT  SOURCES  OF  MINERAL  MAT- 
TER — Those  available  in  organic  form:  Nitrogen, 
supplied  by  protein ;  Phosphorus,  in  milk  and  cream,  eggs 
(especially  yolks  of  eggs),  meat,  whole  wheat,  oatmeal, 
dried  and  fresh  peas  and  beans,  spinach,  raisins,  prunes. 

Those  available  in  organic  or  inorganic  form:  Cal- 
cium in  milk,  dried  beans  and  peas,  oranges,  spinach, 
turnips,  other  fresh  fruits  and  vegetables  and  whole 
grains;  magnesium,  potassium,  iodin,  etc.,  likely  to 
be  adequately  supplied  if  other  ash  constituents  are 
provided  for.  The  addition  of  sodium  chloride  (com- 
mon salt)  as  a  condiment  usually  supplies  a  surplus 
of  sodium  and  chlorine. 

Special  functions  of  each  Food  Principle: 

Proteins  supply  energy,  nitrogen,  sulphur  and  some- 
times phosphorus  and  iron. 

Fats  supply  energy  in  the  most  concentrated  form. 

Carbohydrates  supply  energy  in  the  form  most 
economical  to  the  body. 

Mineral  matter  supplies  building  material,  except 
nitrogen  and  sulphur,  and  helps  to  regulate  body  pro- 
cesses. 

Cow's  milk  is  rich  in  calcium  and  phosphorus  in 


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organic  forms  and  contains  small  amounts  of  sodium, 
potassium,   magnesium,    iron   and   chlorine. 

Eggs  contain  iron  and  phosphorus  in  their  most 
assimilable  forms,  especially  in  yolks. 

Meats  are  lacking  in  calcium  and  while  red  meats 
are  compartively  rich  in  iron,  it  is  not  in  as  available 
form  as  in  eggs. 

Calcium  is  abundant  especially  in  such  vegetables 
as  beans,  peas,  fresh  or  dried,  or  other  green  vege- 
tables; in  fruits  and  outer  parts  of  grains.  There  is 
little  in  polished  rice  or  fine  flour. 

Vegetable  foods  are  rich  in  potassium,  which  usually 
occurs  in  the  form  of  potassium  phosphates. 

Spinach  is  richer  in  iron  than  almost  any  other 
plant  food.  Whole  wheat,  oatmeal,  peas,  beans,  rais- 
ins, prunes  are  also  valuable  sources  of  organic  iron. 

Vegetable  acids  and  their  salts  compose  the  acids 
of  juicy  fruits,  such  as  citric  acid  of  the  citrus  group, 
the  malic  acid  of  apples,  pears,  etc.,  and  tartaric  acid 
of  grapes. 

There  is  some  sulphur  in  turnips,  onions,  cabbage, 
cauliflower,  water  cress,  horseradish. 

The  fibres  in  vegetables  are  necessary  and  excel- 
lent for  roughage  (helping  peristalsis  of  the  bowels). 

Cultol  (a  culture  of  the  Bulgarian  bacilli)  is  a  won- 
derful aid  in  intestinal  troubles.  This  you  may  obtain 
at  the  drug  store.  It  comes  in  glass  jars. 

FOR  THE  SPRING  CLEANING— Most  fruits 
and  vegetables,  but  especially  parsley,  tomatoes,  dande- 
lion, rhubarb,  lettuce,  strawberries,  lemons,  oranges, 


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grape-fruits,    cabbage,    cauliflower,    asparagus,    other 
citric  and  acid  fruits. 

Baked  or  boiled  foods  are  the  best. 

Combinations  to  avoid — 

Acids  with  cream  soups. 

Acids  with  cereals. 

Acids  with  starch. 

Vinegar  with  starchy  foods. 

Milk  with  cucumbers. 

Milk  with  shell  fish. 

Ice  cream  with  fish  or  shell  fish. 

Milk  with  fruit  pie. 

Acid  fruits,  as  oranges,  lemons,  pineapple,  straw- 
berries, apricots,  grapefruit,  are  better  not  taken  with 
meals. 

Acid  fruits  are  allowable  with  meat  but  without 
sugar. 


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Are  you  a  "T.  B."f 

If  you  want  to  get  well,  change 
your  ways.  In  the  past  you  figured 
that  you  were  living  in  the  right 
way. .  But  see  zvhat  a  mix-up  you've 
made  of  it! 


Conclusions 

Now:  To  sum  up  tersely  what  has  been  said,  and 
to  impress  our  readers  again  with  a  few  salient  facts: 

We  assume  that  you  have  drawn  your  own  con- 
clusions as  you  have  read.  What  we  have  written  has 
been  straight  to  the  point  and  devoid  of  technical  or  liter- 
ary frills.  Just  a  few  plain  facts  gleaned  from  real 
experience.  We  hope  you  have  benefited. 

While  we  have  dwelt  at  length  on  the  necessity 
for  maintaining  in  the  quest  for  health,  a  cheerful 
and  peaceful  state  of  mind,  we  have  had  little  to  say 
concerning  the  services  of  the  medical  man;  yet  we 
wish  it  distinctly  understood  that  the  ideas  herein  set 
forth  were  not  derived  from  any  of  the  faith-healing 
cults  extant  today  and  equally  understood  that  we  are 
in  no  wise  discrediting  nor  condemning  the  medical 
man,  as  we  know  his  necessity  in  the  scheme  of  things. 
A  physician's  position  in  "T.  B."  is  first  of  all  a  true 
diagnosis.  Then  advice  to  the  patient  as  to  how  to 

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live  so  as  to  build  up  the  body  and  blood  and  thus 
increase  its  natural  resistance  to  the  disease.  He 
would,  if  he  could,  but  he  cannot  give  you  medicine 
that  will  reach  and  heal  the  lesions  in  the  lung  tissues. 
However,  he  is  indispensable  in  case  of  hemorrhages 
and  where  local  treatment  is  required.  A  few  physi- 
cians today  are  obtaining  results  from  X-ray  treat- 
ment of  the  lungs;  but  unless  the  treatment  is  thor- 
oughly understood,  it  may  do  more  harm  than  good, 
and  it  seems  that  but  very  few  medicos  understand  how 
to  give  it  properly  where  the  lungs  are  concerned. 

As  a  closing  word  we  would  reiterate  and  make 
clear,  that  the  greatest  achievement  in  the  search  for 
better  health,  is  the  development  of  serenity  of  mind, 
and  that  in  the  search  it  may  be  necessary  for  you 
to  change  your  ideas  and  your  very  views  of  life. 

Try  to  see  good  in  everything.  God  sends  the 
heat  of  summer  to  aid  Nature's  processes  in  storing 
up  energy,  in  the  form  of  food,  for  the  development 
of  animal  life.  He  sends  the  icy  blasts  of  winter  to 
complete  Nature's  marvelous  cycle  of  heat  and  cold 
for  the  benefit  of  man — the  rain  and  the  sun  for  irri- 
gating and  refreshing  the  soil,  and  the  electric  storms 
for  purifying  the  atmosphere. 

Remember  it  took  you  a  long  time  to  become  a 
"T.  B."  and  you  must  be  prepared  to  expect  that  it 

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may  take  you  a  longer  time  to  overcome  the  damage; 
so  be  patient  and  persevering. 

Disappointment  should  act  merely  as  a  stimulant 
to  greater  effort.  Even  the  infidelity  and  ingratitude 
of  others  may  be  made  a  crucible  in  which  our  char- 
acters are  moulded  and  come  forth  purified  and 
strengthened.  Fight  the  good  fight  with  all  your 
might  and  God  will  help  you  win. 


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INDEX 

Page 

FOREWORD 5 

THE  STORY 9 

T.  B.  CURABLE — HEREDITY 23 

FEAR  vs.  CONFIDENCE 25 

BAD  HABITS  TO  AVOID 27 

DON'TS    28 

PESSIMISM  vs.  OPTIMISM 29 

CAUSES  OF  T.  B. — SYMPTOMS ...  33 

TEETH  AND  MOUTH 35 

GERMS — CONTAMINATION    37 

NIGHT  AIR — FRESH  AIR 39 

TEMPERATURE — COUGHING — RAISING.  ...  40 

DRUGS   43 

CLOTHING 44 

CUMATE 46 

WATER — AIR — SUN  BATHS 47 

SLEEPING — LIVING  QUARTERS 49 

THE  BLOOD 51 

REST — EXERCISE  53 

BREATHING 56 

MODERATION 57 

CONSTIPATION    58 

FOOD    59 

MENU  FOR  T.  B 62 

FOOD  VALUES — COMBINATIONS.    64 

CONCLUSIONS  68 

CHART  .  71 


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